the new york city area. about an inch of snow, the winds gradually picking up and then tonight we'll see that pick up to eight to 12 inches of snow, blizzard conditions developing with winds gusting to 50 miles per hour and then tomorrow it will begin to die down just a bit and as the snow tapers off, continuing to see blowing and drifting snow as the winds could still gust higher than that 20 to 30-mile-per-hour range and city officials taking this seriously and we need to make preparations and just stay home, hunker down and stay off the roads. back to you. >> absolutely. nick walker, thank you. now to the weather channel's paul goodloe down the road from us in messy times square. >> reporter: yes. we are starting to see and then range midday and now changing back over to snow. sometimes sleet mixing in, as well. this is the calm before the storm and perhaps lulling people in to, oh, it's not going tock as bad as you are talking about. it's still early. the storm is getting closer and stronger as it moves